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Language: ᵐBelep

Source/Author:  Leenhardt (1946) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:yly  Glottocode: nyal1254 
Notes:  Leenhardt, Maurice. 1946. Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie 
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Transcription converteⁿd to IPA based on author's phonetic descriptions.

Except: some vowels;
[r̃] = "dental nasalised liquid"; and
[’], which I assume to be glottal stop but the author does not explicitly discuss.
 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Mary Walworth & John Lynch  Checked By:  
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Central-Eastern Oceanic:Remote Oceanic:New Caledonian:Northern:Extreme Northern 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
5 to walk      
7 to come      
8 to turn word info      
9 to swim      
10 dirty      
12 skin      
15 bone      
20 to know, be knowledgeable      
21 to think      
22 to fear      
28 to breathe      
29 to sniff, smell      
33 to laugh      
34 to cry      
35 to vomit      
36 to spit      
37 to eat      
38 to chew word info      
39 to cook word info      
40 to drink      
41 to bite      
42 to suck      
44 to hear      
46 to see      
47 to yawn      
48 to sleep      
49 to lie down word info      
50 to dream      
51 to sit      
52 to stand      
56 child      
63 name      
64 to say      
66 to tie up, fasten      
67 to sew word info      
69 to hunt word info      
70 to shoot word info      
71 to stab, pierce      
72 to hit word info      
73 to steal      
74 to kill      
76 to live, be alive      
77 to scratch word info      
78 to cut, hack word info      
80 to split word info      
81 sharp      
82 dull, blunt      
83 to work word info      
84 to plant      
85 to choose      
86 to grow word info      
87 to swell word info      
88 to squeeze word info      
89 to hold word info      
90 to dig      
91 to buy      
92 to open, uncover      
93 to pound, beat word info      
94 to throw word info      
95 to fall word info      
98 egg      
99 feather      
100 wing      
101 to fly      
103 meat/flesh      
104 fat/grease      
105 tail      
106 snake      
108 louse word info      
112 rotten word info      
116 flower      
118 grass      
123 to flow      
125 salt      
126 lake      
127 woods/forest      
132 fog      
137 to blow word info      
138 warm word info      
139 cold word info      
140 dry word info      
141 wet      
142 heavy      
144 to burn word info      
147 black      
148 white      
149 red      
150 yellow      
151 green      
152 small      
153 big      
154 short word info      
155 long word info      
156 thin word info      
157 thick word info      
158 narrow      
159 wide      
161 shy, ashamed      
162 old word info      
163 new      
169 year      
170 when? word info      
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
173 at      
174 in, inside      
175 above      
176 below      
177 this      
178 that      
179 near      
180 far      
181 where? word info      
182 I      
183 thou      
184 he/she      
185 we word info      
186 you      
187 they      
188 what? word info      
189 who? word info      
190 other      
191 all      
192 and      
193 if      
194 how? word info      
196 to count      
208 Fifty word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
1 hand e n   11  
2 left maʝa rika maon   1, 59  
3 right maʝa ᵐbaʝun   27  
4 leg/foot ʰka n   1  
6 road/path ⁿdan   1  
11 dust ⁿdavo ⁿdo   1, 58, 65  
13 back word info ⁿdu n   82  
14 belly jera n   1  
16 intestines ʰmoejana n   95  
17 liver kiʝe n   1  
18 breast t̪’e n   1  
19 shoulder ᵐbuva n   37, 87  
23 blood ⁿda n   1  
24 head ᵐboa n   9  
25 neck no n   18  
26 hair word info pole ᵐboa n   31  
27 nose ʰmʷaⁿde n   14  
30 mouth nuã n   36  
31 tooth pʷanuã n   21, 1  
32 tongue kenava n   14, 7  
43 ear jale n   1  
45 eye t̪alema n   33, 1  
53 person/human being aju liet̪   96  
54 man/male ac   14  
55 woman/female t̪’ama   119  
57 husband aron   2, 31  
58 wife ʝawan   102, 5  
59 mother caʝo   89  
60 father caman   1  
61 house moa   1  
62 thatch/roof uc   72  
65 rope jan   25?  
68 needle ⁿdua ᵐboak   44  
75 to die, be dead calin mac   1  
79 stick/wood ’aⁿda ʝek   49, 47  
96 dog t̪avia   45  
97 bird mali   1  
102 rat ciᵐbʷi   3  
107 worm (earthworm) ᵐbe   11  
109 mosquito avu   1  
110 spider aʰp   95  
111 fish ᵐbae   11  
113 branch word info ’aⁿdat̪   1  
114 leaf ⁿdaot̪   1  
115 root wa:t̪   2  
117 fruit poat̪   1  
119 earth/soil ⁿdo   1  
120 stone ᵐboac   1  
121 sand o:n   1  
122 water word info we   2  
124 sea ⁿdalac   1  
128 sky nanⁿda   1  
129 moon moalok   52, 71  
130 star piʝu   1  
131 cloud word info nae uru   3, 38  
133 rain ora   1  
134 thunder ʰniʝu   43  
135 lightning waⁿdeva   96  
136 wind wiu   93, 18?  
143 fire na:p   48  
145 smoke word info puᵐbo na:p   88  
146 ash ⁿdap   1  
160 painful, sick ’aᵐbe      
160 painful, sick mac   1  
164 good ’o   53  
165 bad, evil moaɲ   36  
166 correct, true ’alaju   100, 99  
167 night ᵐboan   1  
168 day ga:t̪   51  
195 no, not ’ai   10  
197 One word info poalaic   14  
198 Two word info poaⁿdu   1  
199 Three word info pajen   1  
200 Four word info palavac   1, 65  
201 Five word info poanem   1, 15  
202 Six word info poanem nua poalaic      
203 Seven word info poanem nua poaⁿdu      
204 Eight word info poanem nua pajen      
205 Nine word info poanem nua palavac      
206 Ten word info nua poanem t̪ulik   51  
207 Twenty word info poanem ’aʝai e      
209 One Hundred word info ’aʝanem      

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